Kersti Miilen

The film summarizes the life and creative path of Mati Hint, an outstanding linguist, essayist, lecturer and who played an important role during the restoration of Estonia's independence.

The 1960s and 70s brought a new wave of talented young poets and writers, painters and theater innovators to the gray and established culture of Soviet Estonia. Evald Hermaküla began his theatrical career as a young, angry genius working at the Vanemuine Theater, where he staged several legendary productions. The direction of Hermaküla was clear - away from the text and the rationality towards the subconscious. The film mixes theatrical and personal memories of the author with documentary archival material and Hermaküla's contemporary thoughts on theater, life and death.

It is time to get out of the closet and show the world your teeth. The director, who considers himself to be Mozart, has been tootling with his films in the festival circuit for years, waiting for a big breakthrough. For an inexplicable reason, the world has not recognised his talent. Still only Salieris have garnered the fame and the fortune. There is a simple conclusion. The world has not learned anything in 200 years and keeps repeating the same mistake.

Wild animals are in trouble. In areas that have always been covered with forests, there are now new housing estates, highways and polygons. Because of human activity, more and more animals get into accidents. But the injured animals still have hope because volunteer foster mothers take care for them.

Andres is a sensitive teenager raised by his strict grandparents in a small bland Soviet Estonian town. He is being bullied at school and his only friends are the drunkards, whores, and thieves living next door.

From time to time, Mephistopheles manifests himself to the Estonian people through Linnar Priimägi. The released energy gives birth to chaos. Manfred Vainokivi tries his hardest to portray the one who causes it. Unsuccessfully, of course. Because even the largest letters are unreadable in twilight, as Goethe said. And there is a lot of twilight now. At least according to Linnar.

On a sunny day in November 1938 a magnificent white schooner set sail from Greenwich Village under the command of the young Estonian captain Ahto Valter. Travelling among several wealthy passengers from the US, Canada and England are also his Scottish-American wife and their 1.5-year-old son Teddy. With a crew of adventurers chosen from 5,000 applicants in the United States, the 70-ton auxiliary ketch Ahto starts a memorable and adventurous voyage around a world, flying the Estonian flag.

The film is set in a town that has a professional symphony orchestra, managed by authoritarian and confident Paul Levald, who has conducted both the orchestra and his family affairs for years. Due to dramatic events, Paul’s son-in-law Egon Rei must unexpectedly assume his duties. In addition to the baton, power and responsibility as well as the tensions in the orchestra, Egon inherits his father-in-law’s secrets and obligations from his complicated past. New lies are born out of old ones and, at some point, Egon realises that the revelation of truth might cause a real chaos. "Family Lies" by Valentin Kuik and Manfred Vainokivi is a relationship drama about elephants in the bedroom and skeletons in the closet, about small and big deceptions, half-truths and set-ups that can be found in every family’s secret chronicles.

One of the most extraordinary personas in Estonian cultural history is undoubtedly the writer, director, publicist, lecturer and a public figure Mati Unt. The Documentary Unt’s Hour takes us back to the bright generation of the ‘60s with their innovative and creative ideas in the literary world and the theatre. The film depicts Mati Unt as a charismatic persona, a phenomenal thinker and an anarchist who used cinematic tools to reinvent old forms. The film includes never before seen footage of Mati during his creative process and among his friends. The story centers on different groups of friends that formed over the years which provide the basis for the selection of characters. The Salon of Mati’s best friend Vaino Vahing in Tartu which brought together writers, scientists, and theatre pioneers; and the literary salon at Vilde tee in Tallinn in the home of Mati Unt and Kersti Kreismann at the beginning of Mati’s career as a director in the Youth Theatre in Tallinn.

A snapshot of one segment of Estonian present-day life, shown through the eyes of a child: 8 years old Lucia is leading a jolly and naughty Pippi-Longstocking-style life in a small town in Estonia. Her father Kaido, a graveyard keeper, can hardly provide for the family, her mother Maria is a drunk. Then the family receives an unexpected invitation to spend a week in Finland, in the house of the female pastor Sipra. This week will change everybody's life in unexpected ways...

The film tells the story of a single mother having trouble coping with everyday life. However, she finds in magic and fantasy a way to escape her reality until the enigmatic appearance of a man in her life. He will change her forever, to the point of making the decisions she has always feared. She will suddenly and conclusively have to answer her own question: what do I want? She will be given a chance to correct the mistakes in her life; will she cherish this opportunity or let it slip away?

Joonas, Karit, Doris and Fred are seven years old and will start going to school. They live in different areas in Estonia. They're all different children with different schools and teachers. Yet, time is the same for all of them, passing by the same way. Where will they be at the end of their first school year?

Edvard Oja is the object as well as subject of his own film. This is an honest story about chronical alcoholism, about the author's journey through treatment, religion, death and friendship. Edvard has been always supported by his mother who has provided unconditional love for her son in every situation. Mother is the only one in the documentary who won't ennoble the environment suffering from alcoholism. Yet, her son has no strength to struggle out of his tough situation. Is it possible after all that he will be cured?

This story is about a young man who wants to go behind the horizon...

Part of the puppet film trilogy "Gabbage Head," the film features the main character - the stubborn and selfish peasant Saamuel - and his loyal partner Pink Piglet. The actions take place in Internet, into where Saamuel and his Piglet get by accident. Saamuel understands the importance of information and starts do deal with it.

Bermuda is a film about love

PRIMAVERA is a three dimensional film featuring puppets that work in the so called telescope system which tries with the help of stylised images to visually depict the great variety existing in nature, the food chain and variations in the reproduction of different living organisms. The entire film is seen through the eyes of a butterfly larva.

A small village in a large sea. Two young dogs, Tom and Fluffy are in love with each other. Their friend, Oskar the dog, is a newly invented machine for sugar. Returns from a trip around the world to visit an old dog Klaus. These four, along with Julius the cat and the pond obstinate spoiled dragon Otto, Rat Leo and tiny white mouse Julia; hare James, who is not at all convinced that she is still a rabbit, small mysterious creatures and light blue butterflies, insect Give her three mischievous insects child - all of them together are the characters of children's humorous animated film series "Tom and Fluffy".

1895 is a picture about the life of brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere, who have immortalized their names as inventors of cinematography. What inspired them?

В основе фильма - биография известного и любимого в Эстонии автора лирических песен Раймонда Валгре, охватывающая период с 1939 по день его смерти в канун Нового 1960 года. В одной из главных ролей - Лиз Таппо, мисс Эстония-1991.

A confrontation of two worlds-- Two rooms, one of which is full of light and colors, the other a monotonous gray.

Three Jolly Fellows tells of the adventures of three small men in a world that borders on the fantastic: the composed and close-to-nature Mossbeard, the irritable city dweller Halfshoe, and the sensitive poet Muff.

Тридцатилетняя Регина, получив в наследство дом в деревне, безболезненно покидает город и начинает новую жизнь. Для начала героиня выходит замуж и, убедившись в том, что мужа от алкоголизма не вылечить, ради здоровья будущих детей начинает поиски подходящих кандидатур...

A mother released from a prison camp in Russia finds her son, but realises that reconciliation is impossible.

An Estonian animated film.

Шестнадцатилетняя Мари убегает домой из детдома. Но, видя, что опустившемуся отцу она не нужна, Мари возвращается обратно. Ранимая девочка долго не может привыкнуть к грубости сверстников. Однажды поняв причину этого маленького ада, она осознала и то, что привыкать к нему вовсе необязательно: у нее хватит сил постоять за себя...

It is a parable about indifference

When the frontline extends over Estonia in the summer of 1944, the pilots of a shot down Soviet airplane come to ask for help at a farm where organ builder Jaan lives with his kids.

Известный писатель, уставший от городской суеты, неожиданно покидает благоустроенное жилище и отправляется в многолетнее путешествие...

Rein Raamat’s Hell adapts the engravings of Estonian graphic artist Eduard Wiiralt into a surreal, grotesque, and heavily sexual animated short. Wiiralt’s three source works, “The Preacher,” “Cabaret,” and “Hell,” date back to the early 1930s and portray a cacophony of bacchanalia, hysteria, and violence in the final years of Estonian independence amid the unrest of the Great Depression and European instability.

Heik Ernitsa's directorial debut "Encounter" is a humorous story about dreams and reality. "Street" by Valter Uusberg paints a nervous and gloomy picture of the artificial environment of the city. Mati Küti's satirical "Monument" dissects egocentrism in a grotesque tone.

A surreal view of marriage that actually grows funnier as it progresses through its fourteen minutes towards a conclusion that is not unexpected.

Filmmaker Mark Soosaar talks to a remarkable gentleman Leonhard Vene (1902 - 1994), a self-educated antiquity collector thirsty for knowledge. For his whole life Leonhard has lived in a manor where he has all his life collected. Beautiful old pieces of furniture fill the hall of the manor - the old man himself puts up with puritan conditions and lives in a small kitchen. He is always smiling and looks like he comes from the previous century.

В основе фильма - действительные события периода первой русской революции. Руководителя музыкального общества Бернхарда Лайпманна из Вигала (волостной центр Эстляндской губернии Российской империи), во время революции 1905 года выбирают делегатом эстонского крестьянского съезда в Тарту. Он пропагандирует среди крестьян идеи социализма, убеждая их в том, что в результате революции они получат землю. Крестьяне захватывают помещичью усадьбу и сжигают её. Для подавления бунта приходят карательные войска и Лайпманн предстает перед судом. Его приговаривают к розгам, но, предпочитая смерть позору, он требует, чтобы суд заменил это наказание расстрелом.

На суровом острове Сааремаа жил богатырь огромного роста Тылл, и всё у него было такое же огромное: и жена Пирет, и дом, и конь. Как-то раз он мирно пахал землю, но его враг страшный Нечистый забросал всё поле камнями. Между тем на остров напали датские рыцари, и многие жители полегли в бою. Тогда уцелевшие пришли к Тыллу звать его на помощь. Велел Тылл жене развести огонь, а сам пошёл на соседний островок за капустой для щей, чтобы перед битвой подкрепиться, и увидел в бушующем море перевёрнутую рыбачью лодку. Тылл, которому глубокое море не доходило и до пояса, спас тонущих рыбаков. Пообедав, оставил он печальную жену и пошёл сражаться с врагом. Повсюду лежали трупы погибших островитян, а вдали продолжалась жестокая битва. Тем временем к дому великана подкрался Нечистый и разрушил его, и жена, не выдержав такого горя, умерла...

A farmer, recently released from prison, throws all his energy into improving his property so he can marry his beloved. But he's crippled in an accident and, anguished at the thought that he will no longer be man enough for her, decides to kill himself.

Of the deminers combing the landscape, a young man walking without a detector finds himself on a mine. Since his companions cannot help him, the young man wants to dictate his goodbye letter to his wife.

Theater and film artist Peeter Linzbach in Kadriorg Park in Tallinn, at an art exhibition, drawing. Ants Eskola, Ivar Kosenkranius and Veljo Käsper talk about the artist.